Thursday, March 25, 2010 (Day 61)

I’m feeling pretty good today.  I got home last night and REALLY didn’t want to exercise.  I hate exercising when I get home from work.  I have worked all day, I don’t want to work more.  I want to lay on the couch and watch television, not exercise on the treadmill!  But, I did anyway.  My shoulder has been really hurting me.  Back when I was in one of my car accidents (I’m pretty sure it was the second one – on the freeway), I got frozen shoulder.  What happens is your shoulder starts to hurt.  It gets more and more painful and then it gets stiff.  The pain and stiffness continue to increase until eventually they’re so bad you can’t move your arm.  This freaked me out the first time.  When it hurt, I stopped moving it.  I iced it and rested it.  Well, that’s what led to not being able to move it.  Literally.  I rushed to the afterhours care and learned about the whole frozen shoulder thing.  When you feel pain you’re supposed to do stretches and therapy and keep in moving.  So I’m trying to do that, but it isn’t getting better.  Sometimes it’s worse, but it isn’t so bad I can’t move it yet.  So after the treadmill last night, I sat with the ice pack on my shoulder.  I also took a couple ibuprophen to help the pain and inflammation.  Don’t know why I started talking about frozen shoulder.  I did Gilad this morning.  He kills me.  This is an older video though, from the 80’s, so he isn’t as insane.  Actually, I think it’s because I did the cardio workout and not the toning.  I will try toning tomorrow.  The workouts are 45 minutes each.  So I did the warmup and then the cardio, then “rewound” to the beginning of the cardio and did 15 minutes of it over, then cool down.  So I got a full hour in.  I’ve really been wanting to go to Subway, but why would I eat a 300 calorie 6-inch sub for lunch when I’m just as full after a 200 calorie Slim-Fast?  Subway for dinner is good because I can eat a whole foot-long for 600 calories – and that’s how many calories I allow myself for dinner.  Tonight is going to be chicken marinara though.  Boneless, skinless chicken breast breaded in egg white and seasoned bread crumbs, baked, and topped with spaghetti sauce and mozzarella cheese.  Not too unhealthy, but not super low in calories too, so I need to drink my shake for lunch.  I do love Slim-Fasts though. On a side note, I’m wearing a skirt today that I haven’t fit into before.  It is beautiful and I love it!